I'm frozen, not knowing what to do next. The most beautiful girl I have ever seen is standing right in front of me. Our surroundings blurred around us—the empty hallway, the obnoxiously vibrant blue lockers—making her the only thing in focus. Her, her dark hair falling in curls down from her ponytail, the freckles scattered across the bridge of her nose, her vivid green eyes looking right at me.
"Excuse me?" She gently brings me back to reality.
"Oh, sorry." My face flushes furiously. I'm acutely away of the lumpy sweatshirt and ratty jeans I had decided to wear that morning, as well as the hall pass excusing me from class clasped tightly in my sweaty right fist.
"It's fine." She smiles brightly. "I was wondering if you could show me to my class? I got confused."
"Sure." I take her schedule from her, scanning it to find 3rd period. "Mindfang, huh? You're in the wrong section of the school entirely."
She grimaces. "Typical. I asked some seniors for directions, and somehow I ended up by the portables."
"Never ask the seniors for directions," I advised her, leading her down the hallway. "They'll send you in the opposite direction of where you're supposed to be going."
"And why aren't you in class?"
"I had to escort one of my idiotic friends to the fucking health room." I waved the pass at her. "I'm not ditching or anything. Though I wouldn't mind it," I added in a mutter. I pretended not to notice her slight flinch at the swear word, taking a mental note of making an effort not to swear as much in front of her. We continued to wind through the hallways for a few minutes in silence. I was desperately trying to think of something to say, even as we stopped in front of the classroom door. "Well, here you are," I said, trying not so sound disappointed.
She had just reached for the doorknob when I realized that I had forgotten to ask what her name was. "Wait!" I hated how frantic my voice sounded. "What's your name?"
"Jade." She looked back to smile at me. "Jade Harley." She turned the knob of the door and entered the classroom, leaving me staring after her in the empty hallway with a love pierced heart.
A/N: Not sure if I'll continue this; I might just leave it as a oneshot, unless if a lot of people want more.